In a nutshell, this is what I used to achieve somewhat cross browser css background transparency: #content { background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.3); } Then, you’ll of course need to make an exception for stinkin IE: <!–[if IE]> <style type="text/css"> #content { background:transparent; filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr=#44FFFFFF,endColorstr=#44FFFFFF); zoom: 1; } </style> <![endif]–> In the case above, I’m using Microsoft’s gradient, but [...]

A very common issue with Apache logs in which many multiples of the following lines are logged: OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0″ 200 – “-” “Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) (internal dummy connection) You’re logs will looking something like this (in this case ipv6 enabled): ::1 – – [30/Jan/2011:09:29:17 -0800] “OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0″ 200 – “-” “Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) (internal dummy [...]

After rebooting my Linux server Apache fails to start. When trying to start with either apachectl or httpd I’ll come across the following message: httpd not running, trying to start (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80 (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80 no listening sockets [...]

I had an issue with the WordPress 3.0+ video uploader while trying to upload Flash Video files with the extension f4v. Upon attempting to load a flash f4v video file with the WordPress video uploader the following error message would be thrown, “File type does not meet security guidelines.”. The ultimate fix is to add the [...]

Sometimes you’ll need to update post and page urls when going from a development environment to production, or more simply when going from one domain to the next. If you have many (10s to 100s), and you will have that if the WP snapshots have been run, then you’ll want to update them all easily. [...]